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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Restore of chunks of one dbspace in parallel

In a case of an onbar restore and depending on the onconfig configuration of BAR_MAX_RESTORE setting a parallel restore of dbspaces is possible. In the case that one of the dbspaces have lots of chunks, all of these chunks will be restored sequent...
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Support for DataStage in Git-integrated Projects

As of 4.8, DataStage is not supported in Default Git Integrated projects. A large Federal Customer requests the ability to leverage DataStage in Git-integrated projects. This is critical for the customer to adopt a consistent CI/CD framework acros...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 1 Submitted

update integrated packages spark3.4.x, miniconda24.4.x, jupyter7.x

integrated packages are outdated in IBM Spectrum Conductor, need newer pkgs to catch up with compliance and security. current miniconda : 4.8.3latest miniconda : 24.4.0 current spark : 3.3.1latest spark : 3.5.x current jupyter : 6.xlatest jupyter ...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Backups to use temp dbspaces with most closlely matching page size.

For backups store the before images it temporary dbspaces which most closely match the pagesize of the dbspace being backed up. Presumably this would be more efficent. E.g. If backing up a 16k dbspace prefer putting before images in a 16k,8k or 4k...
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Allow temp tables and backup before images to handle temp dbspaces which fill up.

If temporary tables/backup before images are spread across multiple temp dbspaces and one fills then put the data/page into the temp dbspaces which have space.This would stop backups/jobs failing.
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Functional difference between Datastage V11.7 and V11.5.

The client has just migrated their Datastage jobs to V11.7 but they have an issue with variable names in the migrated rules. Although the lab managed to reproduce the issue, they responded two days ago stating that they do not have a workaround fo...
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Support for SAP HANA in Db2 Replication Service

A large Federal customer has a requirement to replicate, in near real-time, SAP HANA to Db2/Db2Wh. Our documentation page for the Data Replication Service shows that CP4D can support Db2 Warehouse as a target, but that SAP HANA is currently not su...
4 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Consumer being truncated when using egosh CLI

Egosh is quicker than the REST API to match consumers back to the spark instance groups. However, the consumer is truncated if the value is greater than 40 characters, which is not useful. This occurs on the following commands: egosh user roles4us...
4 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Add better pipeline failure notification stages/connectors like 11.7 on prem

We should have access to a Email Notification stage like on prem 11.7 has to allow us to notify an email group for failures and add specific job log/runtime data to the email. Not having this causes a lot of manual checking on jobs, and the built-...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Provide support for deploying Db2 Warehouse under Rancher K8

Currently we deploy Db2 Warehouse in Openshift. It would be useful to support other implementations as well like Rancher K8.
4 months ago in Db2 / Warehouse 0 Submitted